Winter is approaching and there is a group of Americans, about ten million strong, who dread it more and more each year.
For no reason they begin to feel depressed, lose motivation, and suffer through feelings of anxiety and loneliness once the seasons change that never seem to abate until spring breaks.
These feelings are known as Seasonal Affective Disorder and are caused by underexposure to sunlight.
Luckily for people that suffer through every winter with SAD, there are some options now available that can treat the disease.
Most symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder can be cured through the use of a special lamp made to treat the disease.
Ordinary light bulbs only emit a small spectrum of light, where the sun on the other hand emits a wide spectrum ranging from UV rays to infrared waves.
The full spectrum lights designed for lamps that treat seasonal affective disorder are up to ten times more powerful than incandescent bulbs and emit the same spectrum of light that the sun does.
The treatment of seasonal affective disorder is simple and painless with these lamps.
Someone afflicted with SAD just sits by the lamp for at least an hour, and up to several hours, a day so that their body can soak up the artificial sun's rays.
The lamp can be put on a desk at work at any other area.
You can even read and work as you normally would while sitting close to the lamp.
Just make sure not to wear any kind of sunglasses when sitting next to the lamp because the light from the full spectrum bulbs needs to strike your retinas to cause the chemical reaction in your body that treats the symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder.